These slides on "What is Intelligence" was presented in the Sunday Dialogue of KFI Cuttack Centre. The Dialogue exploration and presentation was in the light of J Krishnamurti teachings.

1. What is
Intelligence?
SUNDAY DIALOGUE
15th February 2015
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6. Lets Explore What Is
INTELLIGENCE?

7. First of all do we need to be intelligent and
why we are always asked to be intelligent?
Does intelligence helps in our daily living?
If its so then what is intelligence?
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8. What is the
Dictionary meaning and Etymology
of the word
INTELLIGENCE ?
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9. Dictionary meaning of Intelligence is…
“the ability to acquire and apply
knowledge and skills”
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10. So is intelligence related to knowledge?
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11. Does acquiring of skills leads to intelligence?
If its not so then what is intelligence?
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12. Intelligere (from Latin) Intelligentia (from Latin) (Old French)
Intelligence / Intelligent (late Middle English)
which mean ‘UNDERSTAND’
Etymology of Intelligence
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13. Krishnamurti says…….
“Do you know what intelligence is?
It is the capacity, surely, to think freely without
fear, without a formula, so that you begin to discover for
yourself what is real, what is true; but if you are
frightened you will never be intelligent.
Any form of ambition, spiritual or mundane, breeds
anxiety, fear; therefore ambition does not help to bring
about a mind that is clear, simple, direct, and hence
intelligent.”
Chapter 1, TOTT
To be free is to be intelligent, but intelligence does
not come into being by just wishing to be free; it comes
into being only when you begin to understand your whole
environment, the social, religious, parental and traditional
influences that are continually closing in on you.
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14. “To be free is to be intelligent, but intelligence does not
come into being by just wishing to be free; it comes into
being only when you begin to understand your whole
environment, the social, religious, parental and
traditional influences that are continually closing in on
you.”
Chapter 2, TOT
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15. Krishnamurti further says…….
The moment you come to a conclusion as to
what intelligence is, you cease to be intelligent.
That is what most of the older people have done:
they have come to conclusions. Therefore they
have ceased to be intelligent.
So you have found out one thing right off:
that an intelligent mind is one which is constantly
learning, never concluding.
Chapter 2, TOTT
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16. So now lets read together what is
intelligencein the words of
Krishnaji.
DISTRIBUTE THE PRINT OUT AMONG THE PARTICIPANTS
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17. Chapter – 2
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Think on These Things

18. Questioner: What is intelligence?
Krishnamurti: Let us go into the question very slowly,
patiently, and find out. To find out is not to come to a
conclusion. I don't know if you see the difference.
The moment you come to a conclusion as to what
intelligence is, you cease to be intelligent. That is
what most of the older people have done: they have
come to conclusions. Therefore they have ceased to
be intelligent. So you have found out one thing right
off: that an intelligent mind is one which is constantly
learning, never concluding.
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19. What is intelligence? Most people are satisfied with a
definition of what intelligence is. Either they say, "That is a
good explanation", or they prefer their own explanation;
and a mind that is satisfied with an explanation is very
superficial, therefore it is not intelligent.
You have begun to see that an intelligent mind is a
mind which is not satisfied with explanations, with
conclusions; nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is
again another form of conclusion. An intelligent mind is an
inquiring mind, a mind that is watching, learning, studying.
Which means what? That there is intelligence only when
there is no fear, when you are willing to rebel, to go against
the whole social structure in order to find out what God is,
or to discover the truth of anything.
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20. Intelligence is not knowledge. If you could read all the
books in the world it would not give you intelligence.
Intelligence is something very subtle; it has no anchorage. it
comes into being only when you understand the total process
of the mind - not the mind according to some philosopher or
teacher, but your own mind. Your mind is the result of all
humanity, and when you understand it you don't have to study
a single book, because the mind contains the whole knowledge
of the past. So intelligence comes into being with the
understanding of yourself; and you can understand yourself
only in relation to the world of people, things and ideas.
Intelligence is not something that you can acquire, like learning;
it arises with great revolt, that is, when there is no fear - which
means, really, when there is a sense of love. For when there is
no fear, there is love.
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21. If you are only interested in explanations, I am
afraid you will feel that I have not answered your
question. To ask what is intelligence is like asking
what is life. Life is study, play, sex, work, quarrel,
envy, ambition, love, beauty, truth - life is everything,
is it not? But you see, most of us have not the
patience earnestly and consistently to pursue this
inquiry.
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Think on These Things
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